Norwegian police announced on Tuesday that they had detained the 27-year-old son of Norway’s Crown Princess on suspicion of rape. Prior to his mother Mette-Marit’s 2001 marriage to Crown Prince Haakon and subsequent princesshood, Marius Borg Høiby was born.
The criminal code’s prohibition on “sexual intercourse with someone who is unconscious or for other reasons is unable to resist the act” led to his detention.
According to the police, he is charged with performing a “sexual act without intercourse” on a victim who was “said to have been unable to resist the act.”
Hege Salomon, the lady’s attorney, told CNN that the claimed victim is a twentysomething woman who had never seen Høiby before meeting him on the day of the alleged occurrence.
Twist: They Are Not Romantically Involved
She and Høiby were not romantically involved. According to authorities, Høiby was taken into custody late on Monday night and was being kept in a detention facility on Tuesday morning.
Øyvind Bratlien, his attorney, told CNN that he refutes the accusation. According to the Norwegian public broadcaster NRK, Høiby has now been charged with a number of offenses against five distinct individuals, including a male and four women.
According to NRK, Høiby has dated three of the women and has been accused of abusing all three of them in intimate relationships.
After one of the three women allegedly participated in a violent confrontation in an Oslo residence in August, police accused Høiby of assault and criminal damage.
According to police, Høiby was arrested on Monday while this woman was in a car with him. According to NRK, Høiby has also been accused with threatening to kill a man in his 20s.
Høiby “only pleads guilty to a case of one incident of bodily harm against his last girlfriend, criminal damage in her apartment, and a threat,” according to his attorney, who spoke to CNN.
He denies criminal responsibility for the other circumstances. When contacted by CNN, the Royal House of Norway refused to comment on the accusations.